A Quote by Annie Dillard

If we listened to our intellect, we’d never have a love affair... or go into business. You’ve got to jump off cliffs and build your wings on the way down.

Annie Dillard

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Annie Dillard
American - Author
Born: April 30, 1945

If we listened to our intellect, we'd never have a love affair. We'd never have a friendship. We'd never go into business, because we'd be cynical. Well, that's nonsense. You've got to jump off cliffs all the time and build your wings on the way down.

Ray Bradbury

You've got to jump off cliffs and build your wings on the way down.

Ray Bradbury

We have to continually be jumping off cliffs and developing our wings on the way down.

Kurt Vonnegut

I don't think about what I do. I do it. That's Buddhism. I jump off the cliff and build my wings on the way down.

Ray Bradbury

I've never been in charge of my stories, they've always been in charge of me. As each new one has called to me, ordering me to give it voice and form and life, I've followed the advice I've shared with other writers over the years: jump off the cliff and build your wings on the way down.

Ray Bradbury

Sometimes, if you aren't sure about something, you just have to jump off the bridge and grow your wings on the way down.

Danielle Steel

I'm constantly jumping off cliffs and developing my wings on the way down. ... It's a gamble, a ... spiritual gamble. You are who you choose to be.

Shia LaBeouf

The purpose of fiction is not to nail you to the ground as facts do, but to take you to the edge of the cliff and kick you off so you build your wings on the way down.

Ray Bradbury

Pursue your dreams, but don't be afraid to slow down or jump off the train when your heart calls you to tend to things that last - love, marriage, babies, and happy kids. You can always jump back on the train. It's your journey.

Rachel Campos-Duffy

Jump, then grow wings on the way down.

Jack Canfield

I believed that lemmings really jump off of cliffs.

Cassandra Peterson

Sometimes you just have to jump out the window and grow wings on the way down.

Ray Bradbury

Living at risk is jumping off the cliff and building your wings on the way down.

Ray Bradbury

Love is scary, like anything else, whether you're falling in love, whether you're discovering love in something else...if you're really going to jump off the cliff, when you meet somebody that you love you're going to jump off that cliff, you've got to give them everything. And when you have a kid, it's on a much greater level.

Kate Hudson

I used to take my car and go down to the South Island for five or six days and climb glaciers and jump out of planes and jump off bridges and go white water rafting - a bit of thrill-seeking.

Luke Evans

I think it is clear to everyone what happens in the Fifth . The rejoicing is forced, created under threat, as in Boris Godunov . It's as if someone were beating you with a stick and saying, "Your business is rejoicing, your business is rejoicing," and you rise, shaky, and go marching off, muttering, "Our business is rejoicing, our business is rejoicing.

Dmitri Shostakovich

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